Is my URL being hijacked?

[Jaggernaut]

I am newbie trying to do my first website, using Frontpage and hosting it on an Apache web server. When I finished publishing it using frontpage, I checked by typing in my URL on my browser and it works fine until one day while typing my URL, my index page was gone, but instead a different page appeared with
[my...] URL/parking.php?domain_name=my URL on the address bar.
I tried retyping my URL again and again my index page was gone being replaced. After many tries I gave up and tried later, which finally I got to see my index page. This situation happened like this for a couple of more days, I think there is something very wrong here.
Can anyone here be kind enough to explain what had happened or is there anyone experiencing the same situation as I did?

[bunltd]

Jaggernaut, welcome to WebmasterWorld. Has your domain recently expired? It sounds like you're getting a parking page that some registrars use when a domain expires.

LisaB

[Jaggernaut]

The URL is a recently registered one.

[bunltd]

Have you checked your DNS (nameservers) settings to make sure they are correct for your host?

[Jaggernaut]

First off, thank you for your reply.
I have checked with the nameserver and it is correct. Like just now it was point to my URL as compared to a couple of hours ago, it was of a parked domain with links.
I cannot figure it out.

[g1smd]

DNS takes several days to resolve the server if you change (or start) anything. If the site is only days old, that is likely the answer.

[Jaggernaut]

Site is 3 weeks old. Could not be the DNS as normally 2 days should be enough to propogate

[g1smd]

I have seen DNS take 8 days on one site in recent times, never did find out what the delay was.

[jdMorgan]

Problems like this often happen when the domain used to be parked, but was then activated, but with the DNS records defined on servers different from those used when the domain was parked. In this case, you have *your* DNS records pointing to the correct IP address for *your* live site. But you need to make sure that whoever had the domain parked doesn't still have *their* DNS records pointed to *their* parking site.

I've used the "Sam Spade" program to dig up several of these "zombie DNS" problems in the past, and it usually takes your DNS provider interceding with the other DNS provider to get the old obsolete DNS records removed.

(In case anyone wonders why I have such a terribly negative attitude about "domain parking," this is it. I have never parked a domain and never will, based on the problems I've seen others having. With 'real' hosting so cheap, I just don't see the point. But I've seen a lot of trouble.)

Jim

[edit] Speling errur [/edit]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:15 am (utc) on July 25, 2007]

[Jaggernaut]

Thanks for the replies, I have even wrote to my domain registrar and confirmed that the nameservers are point correctly. Guess I gotta sit it out and see if it will eventually go away.